Alycia Lane arrested for hitting police officer

According to reports, Lane, her boyfriend Chris Booker, and another couple were riding in a cab behind a slow moving, unmarked police car. The police car stopped at a red light when a man in Lane’s cab yelled at the driver of the unmarked car.

“I don’t care if you’re a cop, drive faster!” the man said. Three officers got out of the car and began questioning the man when Lane got out of the cab and began taking pictures of the officers.

A female cop warned the KWY -TV anchor to back away while snapping the photos. According to sources, Lane responded by yelling “I don’t care that you’re a cop – dyke bitch!” and then punching the officer in the face. - By Trans World News Press

Wikipedia on Alycia Lane

Alycia Lane (born May 10, 1972) co-anchors the weekday 6 P.M. and 11 P.M. newscast on KYW-TV in Philadelphia. She is an emmy award winning journalist who joined the station in September of 2003 from WTVJ in Miami, where she was the weekend anchor. She also hosts a weekly segment on the 4 P.M. news entitled "A Woman's View."

Lane is of Puerto Rican descent on her mother's side and Welsh descent on her father's. She is a native of Long Island, New York. She has a Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Albany where she graduated with honors. She is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and speaks fluent Spanish.

Other minority women in the Philadelphia market include WPVI's Lisa Thomas-Laury, the first African-American woman anchor, and WCAU's Renee Chenault-Fattah. In Lane and Chenault-Fattah, both KYW-TV and WCAU-TV offer female minority co-anchors opposite solo anchor Jim Gardner on WPVI. In June 2006 Lane signed a six-year deal to remain with the station.

In May 2007, Lane became the center of a national media story, when reports surfaced that Lane emailed pictures of herself and friends in a bikini to Rich Eisen to an account that he shared with his wife, Suzy Shuster. Shuster's email response became public, but Lane insisted that the picture were harmless and that she and Eisen have been "purely platonic" friends "for almost 10 years", and that they "regularly exchange e-mail and photos."

Alycia Lane was also arrested on December 16, 2007 in New York City, accused of punching a female police officer in the face. Police say she was charged with assault with intent to cause physical injury to an officer. The police report stated that shouted at the female police officer, "I don't care that you're a cop - dyke bitch!"